Tectonics, climate and the diversification of the tropical African terrestrial flora and fauna

TLP Couvreur, G Dauby, A Blach‐Overgaard… - Biological …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Tropical Africa is home to an astonishing biodiversity occurring in a variety of ecosystems.
Past climatic change and geological events have impacted the evolution and diversification …

History of the development of the East African Rift System: A series of interpreted maps through time

D Macgregor - Journal of African Earth Sciences, 2015 - Elsevier
This review paper presents a series of time reconstruction maps of the 'East African Rift
System'('EARS'), illustrating the progressive development of fault trends, subsidence …

Large-scale molecular phylogeny, morphology, divergence-time estimation, and the fossil record of advanced caenophidian snakes (Squamata: Serpentes)

H Zaher, RW Murphy, JC Arredondo, R Graboski… - PloS one, 2019 - journals.plos.org
Caenophidian snakes include the file snake genus Acrochordus and advanced
colubroidean snakes that radiated mainly during the Neogene. Although caenophidian …

[HTML][HTML] Ethiopian vegetation types, climate and topography

M Asefa, M Cao, Y He, E Mekonnen, X Song, J Yang - Plant Diversity, 2020 - Elsevier
Ethiopia is land of geographical contrasts with elevations that range from 125 m below sea
level in the Danakil Depression to 4533 m above sea level in the Semien Mountains, a world …

Continental arc volcanism as the principal driver of icehouse-greenhouse variability

NR McKenzie, BK Horton, SE Loomis, DF Stockli… - Science, 2016 - science.org
Variations in continental volcanic arc emissions have the potential to control atmospheric
carbon dioxide (CO2) levels and climate change on multimillion-year time scales. Here we …

Present‐day kinematics of the East African Rift

E Saria, E Calais, DS Stamps… - Journal of …, 2014 - Wiley Online Library
The East African Rift (EAR) is a type locale for investigating the processes that drive
continental rifting and breakup. The current kinematics of this~ 5000 km long divergent plate …

Mining and the African environment

DP Edwards, S Sloan, L Weng, P Dirks… - Conservation …, 2014 - Wiley Online Library
Africa is on the verge of a mining boom. We review the environmental threats from African
mining development, including habitat alteration, infrastructure expansion, human migration …

GIS-based landslide susceptibility mapping of Western Rwanda: an integrated artificial neural network, frequency ratio, and Shannon entropy approach

VE Nwazelibe, JC Egbueri, CO Unigwe… - Environmental Earth …, 2023 - Springer
The May 2nd and 3rd, 2023 landslide in Rwanda's Western Province caused a devastating
natural disaster, resulting in the tragic loss of 95 lives. Ngororero, Rubavu, Nyabihu, and …

MKED1: a new titanite standard for in situ analysis of Sm–Nd isotopes and U–Pb geochronology

C Spandler, J Hammerli, P Sha, H Hilbert-Wolf, Y Hu… - Chemical …, 2016 - Elsevier
Titanite (sphene) has great potential as a petrogenetic indicator and mineral
geochronometer, as it can host high concentrations of a range of trace elements and it …

The role of paleogeography in Asian monsoon evolution: A review and new insights from climate modelling

D Tardif, AC Sarr, F Fluteau, A Licht, M Kaya… - Earth-Science …, 2023 - Elsevier
The Asian monsoons are triggered by complex interactions between the atmosphere, Asian
and African orography, and the surrounding oceans, resulting in highly seasonal climate …